Weekly Random: #108

Good

• The theory of evolution CAN be disproven. And that’s the beauty of it. – Quora
• How The Economic Machine Works in 30 Minutes – Ray Dalio

• The Battle We Didn’t Choose – My wife’s Fight with Breast Cancer
  • “I loved it all.”
• Look for Love – DJ Sammy (Jose De Mara Remix)

• Bad Guy – Eminem
  (listen through until the end, MMLP2, Release date Nov 5)

So one last time, I’m back
Before it fades into black and it’s all over
Behold the final chapter in the saga
Trying to recapture that lightning trapped in a bottle
Twice the magic that started it all
Tragic portrait of an artist tortured
Trapped in his own drawings
Tap into thoughts
Blacker and darker than anything imaginable
Here goes a wild stab in the dark
As we pick up the last Mathers left off

– Lyrics from “Bad Guy”, The Marshall Mathers LP2

Distracting

• Imagination Pictures – Photographer is 14 years old
  • His tutorials
• Naptime Dream Adventures  – Queenie Liao
• Wood Models
• Custom Bike

• The Bill Clinton Era
  • More

• Flipping a Coin: Levels of Uncertainty
• Punch Analysis
• Africa is much, much bigger than most think

Technical

• Comments on Cisco, Mozilla, and H.264 – Monty Montgomery
• The list of FOSS licenses included in Mercedes Benz cars
• Patent war goes nuclear
  • Rockstar (a MSFT, AAPL, ETC owned patent troll) paid $4.5 billion for Nortel patents and has launched a major attack

• Don’t go into programming if you don’t have a good thesaurus
• Best Practices for Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API

Quote

I’m sorry that this was such a long letter, but I didn’t have time to write you a short one. – Blaise Pascal